Small Business SEM

I’m on vacation at the moment, and yesterday we paid a visit to the March Airfield Museum, a great place to see old military aircraft and learn about history.
As we were walking out, I noticed 3-4 display racks with tourist-related information — hotel coupons and things like that. And I thought, “That’s pretty smart. [...]

One of the after-effects of the Local Search Marketing Guide and the astonishing attention it got is that I’ve been barraged with emails from companies/web sites operating in the Local Search arena who want to make me aware of their product / web site / service / advertising opportunity for small businesses.
Since I’m on the [...]

It is quite an honor to be able to say that I’ll be speaking at the big Search Engine Strategies - San Jose conference in August. Yep, little ‘ol me…. who’da thunk it?
I’ll be speaking during the Big Ideas for Small Sites & Small Budgets session on Wednesday morning. It’ll be a pleasure to meet [...]

Someone once said you have to “leave ‘em wanting more”, so now that SBS has apparently developed a readership … I’m outta here. I’ll be on the road for a bit coming up, but expect to have ‘net access. So there will be posts, just not as often as I might prefer.
Thanks again to [...]

The title says it all…
How to Market on Flickr

One of my mantras for small businesses is this: Work harder, work smarter, and be more creative. Combine those with a good marketing plan and I think you have a recipe for online success.
So the question tonight is: Are you blogging yet?
A blog on your business web site, if done properly, can fulfill all [...]

The Guide to MSN Local Search was tough to put together because they seem so disorganized. Why are they running Superpages ads, and not AdCenter?
If you’re smart about AdCenter and MSN Local Search, maybe you could answer this question that I posed on the SEW Forum a few days ago?

Looks like today is shaping up to be even busier than yesterday here on SBS. So, hello to all the first-time visitors and welcome. If you would, scroll down a few posts or just click this link to read my welcome message from 24 hours ago. (With a handy link to the feed….)
Great thanks to [...]